Frank Bruno Quotes

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.

Charity fundraising galas have always been a wonderful way to support a myriad of causes.

I don't know of any other organization that's raised more money than golf has, because if you are a baseball player, you're a football player, you're a hockey player, if you're just a businessman, and you want to raise some money for a charity, what do they do? They have a golf tournament. They have a golf outing, and they go out and they do it.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

What tournaments want to do, typically, is support charities in their community that need the money and charities that are impactful to their community. The better the job the tournament does for the charities, the better they are able to sell the tournament and raise money for the charity.

Anything I can do to raise awareness and money for charity, I like to do.

Trump has a lot of contacts in the world of charity because he rents out ballrooms, hotel ballrooms, the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago to charities. Charities are often the ones that rent out these ballrooms for big events.

If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.

I'm not good at raising money. I don't like to raise money. It's been my experience that when I ask someone for money, it's not long before they return the favor.

I'm not famous, which generally is an absolute plus point, but if you're on TV, or someone knows who you are, it can be quite helpful to a certain charity or certain cause.

The biggest thing in my life - the biggest - is raising dollars to help kids battle cancer.

I'm an ambassador for World of Children and St Jude's, it always been very important for me to use modeling as a platform to give back or raise awareness for causes that are important.

Getting people to come play my 'Darius and Friends Show' was so easy because it's for St. Jude, and that's a great thing.

When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we'd have $22 million for cancer research, and I don't care, man, there's no reason that isn't possible. No reason!

I'm patron of Children's Hospice South West - I would love to go and play 'Deal' at the children's hospice.

Since becoming a BBC breakfast presenter I have been paid four-figure sums for doing hour-long speeches for associations and at awards dinners. That has been an eye-opener. I am surprised by how much people are willing to pay TV celebrities to do that kind of stuff.

I feel very warmly and joyfully towards BBC Children in Need.

Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.

Pence is a fan of fundraising and does enjoy doing it.

Apart from using it to spread the word about my translation company Blue Elephant and to talk to fans, I find social media an extremely powerful forum for charity.

Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.